Robert Pember d.1560
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Robert PEMBER d.1560
Biographical Note
Of Herefordshire. BA St John's College, Cambridge 1523, fellow there from 1524, MA 1527; fellow of King's Hall 1542, and in 1546 one of the founding fellows of Trinity College. He was noted as a humanist scholar, proficient in Greek and Hebrew, and he taught Greek to Roger Ascham; he also wrote some Latin poetry.
Books
Pember's probate inventory includes ca.180 books, valued at £8 16s 1d (from a total estate valued at just under £20). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek and Hebrew, with a mixture of theology, philosophy, classics, medicine and other topics. He bequeathed a number of specific books to academic colleagues, including Greek books to Ascham. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.111 (see full citation below).
Sources
- Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.111/p.245-9.
- Löwe, J. Andreas. "Pember, Robert (d. 1560), classical scholar." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.